Re: update: sticky fuel distributor plunger?

[Kareem <6keb1@qlink.queensu.ca>]

Why don't you pull an injector and see if it's squirting
at startup. BUT you'll have to plug the hole left by the injector!
On an 8v that "hole" wouldn't cause a significant enough vacuum
leak, but on a 16v with the long intake runner, you don't get
enough vacuum to raise the plate, fooling you into thinking the
fuel distributor control plunger is jammed. Been there before.
It's prob. not the distributor, they are usually the last
thing to worry about.

Kareem
'88 16v
'81 S


On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Joe Doty wrote:

> Okay, I think I may know what's going on here.  After hours of staring at my 
> Chilton's and my open airbox, I have an idea.  The chilton's says that the 
> airflow sensor plate should rest flush with the air cone at rest.  Right 
> now, mine is hanging down below it.  Plus, the plate is hard to move up 
> manually, which means that the fuel distributor plunger is sticky.  The 
> plunger is mushy when you push it in by hand and is slow coming back out.  
> So, since the plate can't move up, my engine is only getting fuel when the 
> 5th injector kicks in at startup.  No, yes, maybe?  Anyone wanna verify any 
> of this?  BTW this is all on an 88 16v.
> Thanks
> Joe
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